The Golden Spire of Chotec

The gaming season kicks off with a Lustria campaign. Played at 1.500 points the first round saw all players scrambling to seize neutral territory and the imperials attacking the chaos hordes in the Golden Spire of Chotec

The scenario rolled was take and hold, which worked against the imperial gunline

But undaunted the men of Altdorf started blasting in the first turn, cutting down to size the chaos knights

Bogenhafen swordsmen and the Reiksguard seized the alter on the center of the battlefield

While a carnivorous plant emerged from a swamp eating up a bloodbeast of Khorne

The Khorne paladin emerged from cover to confront the human knights

While the chaos right flank wheeled towards the center

A combination of magic and a precise mortar shot took care of the chariot

While the valiant halberdiers routed a block of chaos warriors

To seal the deal the knights smashed into the juggernaut paladin, but the beast was so well armoured that they didn't cause a single wound!

In their last turn the second paladin slaughtered the mortar's crew, but it was too late to contest the altar, which guarded by the swordsmen gave victory to the Empire

In the map the chaos northern army retreated to Xahutec, while their southern force attacked the ogres in Oyxl, which will be our next game of the campaign

Flayerkin

The last unit I painted before going in vacation are 10 flayerkin for the warriors of chaos. Made up of heavily mutated barbarians these horrid creatures were converted from orcs with a heavy dose of chaos bits

Battle for Tlanxla

 

And so we've come to the end three warbands venture into the lustrian jungle to explore the ruins of Tlanxla, an abandoned temple city on the shores of the Amaxon river

The brave amazons deploy next to a temple to Sotek

While the ratmen and pirate invaders start to trade shots

First blood goes to a giant rat, that after taking a pirate down is slaughtered by his comrades

While their foes fight it out the amazons keep well out of the way

The skaven at last abandon the pyramid and charge against the wolves of the sea

While a lashworm pounces from the foliage on a warrior woman

And the skaven sorceror runs from a scary tribal totem

The first skaven reach the foe

And the battle quickly devolves in a fierce melee

Men and rats fight it out until the pirate captain falls

With the amazons pelting the foe with arrows all the way

Finally the amazons charge routing the skaven by killing their leader

But it is them who leg it then leaving the ruins in the hands of the pirates

Island hopping

Our lustrian campaign takes us to the fetid depths of the moskito swamps, where three warbands clash in a small island chain looking for treasure

Well supported with two hired swords in tow the pirates face bravely the tropical downpour

While the noisome skaven of clan pestilens skitter through the jungle

And the brave amazons take aim at the invaders

First blood however goes to the local fauna, a swarm of spiders taking down the pirate captain

The skaven rush forwards and both warbands fight it out in the shoals

While the amazons fire at the foe and confront a carnivorous plant

With their leader gone and a swarm of ratmen engulfing them the pirates fail their rout test and flee

Swarming the pestilens rats towards the amazon island

Warrior women and skaven trade blows amongst the foliage

Killing the serpent priestess the enemy plague priest

The skaven pass their first rout test and launch an all out charge

Which is bloodily repulsed by the fierce amazons, who are left in control of the swamp